Rumors & Notes: 1/4/15

TOP STORIES

• 2014: A deadly year (Post & Courier).
  • There were 66 homicides in Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties in 2014, the highest total since 2007.
  • Interactive map showing every homicide in the tri-county area since 2001.
• Officer, driver injured in North Charleston crash (ABC News 4).
• Overturned vehicle stalling traffic on James Island connector, authorities say (Post & Courier).
• Spoleto Festival announces 2015 lineup (Post & Courier).

FOOD/BEV

• The Barbeque Joint Hosts Its 2nd Wild Game Dinner (HCS).
• 15 Min with Sara Clow (Charleston Mag).
• Básico’s Restaurant Week Menu Explores Oaxacan Mole (HCS).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• Medal of Honor Bowl Announced “Ultimate Tailgate Fanfest” (HCS).
• Rose Ball Photo Gallery (Post & Courier).
• The Alley celebrates New Year’s Eve (Post & Courier).
• Charleston makes “15 destinations for travelers to set their sights on in 2015” list (LA Times).
• Gallery: Emancipation Day Parade (Post & Courier).
• Water puppets, film, and more make for a promising 2015 lineup (Charleston City Paper).
• Patriots Point has good ‘Pay What You Can’ turnout despite weather (Post & Courier).
• Monster Jam sights and sounds (News 2).
• Medal of Honor Bowl players report for duty, get straight to work (Post & Courier).
• Charleston: Top 15 things to do 2015 (Charleston Food Bloggers).
• Comedian Nick Thune Stops at Theatre 99 this February (HCS).
• Cougars Fall In CAA Opener at William & Mary (Live 5 News).
• Newton, defense lead Panthers past Cardinals 27-16 (ABC News 4).
• On the laugh track: Theatre 99’s Charleston Comedy Festival features 3 headliners, lots of local mayhem (Post & Courier).
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series Comes to Charleston (HCS).
• Western Carolina holds off The Citadel, 78-70 (Post & Courier).

POLITICS

• Campaigns to replace Riley well underway (Post & Courier).
• Governors’ inaugurals fueled by political donors (ABC News 4).
• South Carolina’s elections among least competitive in the U.S. (Post & Courier).
• Charleston Catholic leaders, others elated with thawing relations with Cuba (Post & Courier).
• McGinley questioned Walpole’s firing ahead of coach’s dismissal, emails show (Post & Courier).
• Charleston has a busy business agenda for 2015 (Post & Courier).
• No silver bullets, but Legislature needs to work on education (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Driver in Isle of Palms wreck faces felony charge in one of many holiday DUI arrests (Post & Courier).
• May date set for married couple’s murder trial in Heather Elvis case (Post & Courier).
• In 2014, the Sea Turtle Rescue Program admitted 37 new patients – the highest number of admissions since the program’s start in 2000
  • Thirteen turtles were released into the wild, and two non-releasable turtles were transferred to permanent homes in aquariums
  • Sixty percent of 2014’s turtle patients were affected by human-influenced injury or illness.
• Flu didn’t take a holiday in South Carolina (ABC News 4).
• $80 million Charleston Midtown project eyes April opening (Post & Courier).
• Victim identified in fatal crash News Year’s Day on James Island (News 2).
• For Charleston and the Lowcountry, a year of big change looms (Post & Courier).
• Shots end Charlotte slaying suspect standoff (ABC News 4).
• Man shot to death at Richland County bar (Post & Courier).
• Church and doctors to hold train crash memorial (ABC News 4).
• Charleston Harbor winter home to spectacular Northern gannets (Post & Courier).
• Mobile app tracks the location of flu virus as epidemic worsens (News 2).
• Drunk driving suspected after SC trooper collision (ABC News 4).
• Woman flees scene, runs from police at speed limit (News 2).
• A decade later, Graniteville still recovering from deadly train wreck (Post & Courier).
• Report: Nephew beats uncle after finding him sexually assaulting girlfriend (ABC News 4).
• Coroner identifies store clerk shot, killed (News 2).
• SC sheriff says man tried to set woman on fire (ABC News 4).
• Berkeley Electric Co-op alerts customers of scam (Live 5 News).
• Roads may get busy with end of holiday season (ABC News 4).
• Man Dead in New Ellenton Shooting (News 2).
• Sumter Police search for man wanted on attempted murder charge (Live 5 News).
• SC mill town staggered, but survived fatal gas leak (ABC News 4).
• Horry County Police say friend shot friend over money and property (News 2).

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